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Â鶹Æƽâ°æ College men’s and women’s tennis have earned automatic bids to the NCAA Division III Tournament after winning their respective Liberty League Championship matches.  

Women win ninth title in a row 

The 16th-ranked women's team earned its unprecedented ninth consecutive Liberty League title by pushing past second-seeded Vassar 5-1. 

Jessica Ampel and Audrey SooHoo got things started with their victory at second doubles, defeating Sarra Yekta and Melina Stavropoulos 8-2. At the top spot, Renee Karchere-Sun and Risa Fukushige, the region's No. 2 team, defeated Frances Cornwall and Tara Edwards 8-4. Vassar would thwart the Â鶹Æƽâ°æ sweep, as their team of Morgane Flournoy and Ashley Fair defeated Lily Feldman and Sofia Carlsson 8-5. 

The teams battled during singles, with Vassar putting up a valiant fight. Dea Koiava got the Thoroughbreds on the board in singles action, defeating Yekta 6-0, 6-2. Feldman recovered to put Â鶹Æƽâ°æ on the brink of victory with her 6-0, 6-1 victory over Stavropoulos.  

SooHoo, the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, clinched the title for the Thoroughbreds after a hard-fought battle, defeating Meghan Rodick 6-3, 7-5. Laura Swenson was leading her match in the third set, Karchere-Sun was leading her match in the second set, and Fukushige and Cornwall were in a 6-6 deadlock in their first set when SooHoo clinched the match. 

  

Men reclaim their top spot  

The 17th-ranked men's team is back on top of the Liberty League after avenging last season’s loss to the second-seeded RPI Engineers in a 5-0 championship match.  

In doubles, Jack McClaren and Jason Keye got Â鶹Æƽâ°æ on the board with an 8-2 win. Travis Leaf and Suraj Mahtani held off Dylan Payne and Zach Ebenfeld 8-6. The first doubles match was a classic effort from both teams, but JT Wynne and Noah Williamson, the sixth-ranked doubles tandem in the Northeast region, defeated Sebastian Castillo-Sanchez and Andrew Imrie after winning the tiebreaker, 8-7 (7-5). 

Moving to singles, Connor Biernat put Â鶹Æƽâ°æ on the verge of a championship with his 6-1, 6-1 victory over Ebenfeld. Wynne, the Liberty League Tournament's Most Outstanding Player, put the finishing touches on the match with his second victory over Castillo-Sanchez this season. The fourth-ranked player in the Northeast region took down No. 16 Castillo-Sanchez in straight sets, 6-2, 6-4. McClaren and Williamson led in the second set of their matches as Wynne clinched the match for the Thoroughbreds.